572.030. Promoting gambling in the first degree. - Missouri Statutes

Promoting gambling in the first degree.

572.030. 1. A person commits the crime of promotinggambling in the first degree if he knowingly advances or profitsfrom unlawful gambling or lottery activity by:

(1) Setting up and operating a gambling device to the extentthat more than one hundred dollars of money is gambled upon or bymeans of the device in any one day, or setting up and operatingany slot machine; or

(2) Engaging in bookmaking to the extent that he receives oraccepts in any one day more than one bet and a total of more thanone hundred dollars in bets; or

(3) Receiving in connection with a lottery or policy orenterprise:

(a) Money or written records from a person other than aplayer whose chances or plays are represented by such money orrecords; or

(b) More than one hundred dollars in any one day of moneyplayed in the scheme or enterprise; or

(c) Something of value played in the scheme or enterprisewith a fair market value exceeding one hundred dollars in any oneday.

2. Promoting gambling in the first degree is a class Dfelony.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60)

Effective 1-1-79